How to make sure Solr/Lucene won't die with java.lang.OutOfMemoryError?

Question

I\'m really puzzled why it keeps dying with java.lang.OutOfMemoryError during indexing even though it has a few GBs of memory.

Is there a fundamental reason why it needs

Answer 1

• navigate to C:\Bitnami\solr-4.7.2-0\apache-solr\scripts
• open up serviceinstall.bat (with notepad++ or another program)
• Either add or update the following properties:- ++JvmOptions=-Xms1024M ++JvmOptions=-Xmx1024M
  • from the command prompt in that window, run serviceinstall.bat REMOVE
  • then run serviceinstall.bat INSTALL
  • Hope that helpw!